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Night Mooring at Maple Bridge
by Ike Taiga
Also known as: Illustration of Zhang Qi's Poem on the Cold Mountain Temple
About the Artwork
In the upper left corner of his painting, Ike Taiga has inscribed a poem by the Chinese poet Zhang Ji (張繼) (733?–779). It reads as follows: The moon has set and crows caw as frost fills the sky. A riverside maple and fishing lights confront my uneasy sleep. Beyond the walls of Gusu lies Hanshan Temple. Its midnight bell reaches my traveler’s boat. The traveler’s boat appears through dense foliage in the foreground. A maple and two fishing boats are in the middle ground. In the distance is Hanshan Temple.
Inscriptions
前身相馬方九皐; 月落烏啼霜滿天， 江楓漁火對愁眠。 姑蘇城外寒山寺， 夜半鐘聲到客船。; 霞樵寫意; 霞樵
Provenance
?–1992: Maud Eells Corning [1908–1991], Mentor, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1992–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776)
- Date
- mid- to late 1700s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Mounted: 210.1 x 53 cm (82 11/16 x 20 7/8 in.); Painting only: 134.9 x 38.4 cm (53 1/8 x 15 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Maud Eells Corning
- Accession no.
- 1992.386
More by Ike Taiga in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00010195
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